Program
8:30am: Breakfast
Morning Session
9:00am: Opening Remarks
Dr. Gillian Small
Vice Chancellor for Research, The City University of New York
9:10am: Dr. Carole Bewley
Chief, Natural Products Chemistry Section, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Using Structural Biology to Study and Inhibit HIV Entry
10:00 am: CUNY Faculty Presentations
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Nancy Greenbaum (Hunter)
RNA Structural Biology: Role of Noncoding RNAs in Gene Expression
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Frida Kleinman (Hunter)
Functional and mechanistic connections between
RNA 3’ end processing and DNA damage response
• Lesley Davenport (Brooklyn)
Conformational Studies of G-Quadruplexed DNA
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Peter Lipke (Brooklyn)
Force-dependent activation of functional amyloid
domains increases cell adhesion in yeasts
11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:15 am: CUNY Faculty Presentations
• Ruel Desamero (York)
Probing Biomolecular Structure and Function with Vibrational Spectroscopy
• Marilyn Gunner
• Rick Magliozzo
• Fred Naider
• Sebastien Poget (CSI)
Use of phospholipid bicelles for solution NMR studies of highly dynamic membrane proteins
12:30 pm: Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:30 pm: Dr. Ward Smith
Chief, Structural Genomics and Proteomics Technology Branch, NIGMS, National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities for Structural Biology Research
2:30 pm: Poster Session
4:00 pm: CUNY Faculty Presentations
• Emmanuel Chang
Mass Spectrometric Technology in Structural Biology
• Ronnie Ghose
• Glendon McLachlan
Structural features of spider-silk mimetics in aqueous and non-aqueous solvents: insights in the fold of a complex material
• Ruth Stark